Recently, my daughter attended a movie at night at Frank Theatres Costal Cinemas. It was very cold. When she returned to her car in the parking lot to leave, her car would not start. She tried again, but no luck. She called me in tears.

When I arrived, hers was the only vehicle still there. I saw her and another person standing by the car with the hood raised. The person helping her was Austin, the night manager. My heart swelled.

ATMC-TV will air two special holiday programs throughout the Christmas season on ATMC Cable Channel 3 and HD Channel 910.

Yuletide Fireplace and Holiday Music will air Christmas Eve from 4 p.m. to midnight and Christmas Day from 12:30 to 8 p.m.

The Shallotte Christmas Parade, hosted by Brunswick County Clerk of Court and host of ATMC-TV’s Our Hometown, Jim MacCallum, and Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce president Shannon Viera, airs Dec. 7-23 Mondays through Fridays at noon and Saturdays and Sundays at 8:30 p.m.

I am dismayed to hear the ban enacted on beach cabanas. As a homeowner on Sunset Beach and Sea Trail, we have enjoyed family vacations on Sunset Beach since 1990.

I am confused as to what the problem is with having cabanas. The cabanas provide much more shade and are placed in a neat row near the dunes. They seem much safer than the umbrellas I have seen blowing down the beach.

If eyes are windows into the soul, then a cat’s whiskers are a telescope into their mind. If you learn to translate the subtle twitches and tucks of cat whiskers, you’ll be one step closer to understanding the feline world. A cat’s whiskers are important indicators of mood, danger detectors and built-in navigational system. What are your cat’s whiskers trying to tell you?

I’m guessing you’re either feeling ecstatic, excluded or exhausted — maybe a little of all three. Let’s just hope you don’t need to be exonerated!

Relax — this is all normal. It’s hard to manage your expectations when you’ve created a scenario right out of a Hallmark movie. On the other hand, you may have just been hoping to get through the holiday without a catastrophe.